Eyeing the Sea
Photography of Carol McCord
and Poetry of Jim McCord
May 1 through September 31, 2025
Opening May 1
at The Kelly Adirondack Center
897 St. David’s Lane, Niskayuna
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Jim McCord will read his poetry and Carol’s accompanying photos will be shown beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Adirondack Room.
This event is free and open to the public.
“Carol and I began putting photos and poems together over 15 years ago. Since then, in addition to Time and Place West and East there have been three books drawn from our times in England, France, Greece, Spain and Portugal. Our effort has always been a cooperative give and take, adjust, and accommodate as we explore the variety of relationships between the two
mediums and try to deepen our thoughts and feelings about what we observe. We would like this exhibition and the book which its selections are taken from to be seen as welcome invitations for others to consider the complex inter – actions between our natural and our human-shaped worlds. At best they might help to live lives of fuller understanding as well as help us deal with life’s dark, often tragic, truths.” – Jim McCord

BLUE HERON
Some say the world will end
in silence pitch-black as night.
Some say in blasts of white.
I admit I’m drawn to light
and often wish to glide
unruffled as this heron
toward diamond-strewn waters
tinted celestial blue
with only a smudge of shadow.
But light can also blanch
what it touches, turn sparkling
waters into flecks of stubble,
dull luminous feathers, dissolve
delineation. Under this warping
light waters appear nothing
like the backdrop of black
at the Great Blue’s back
studded with galaxies.